peter hates software: bastard standards

From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Date: 18:38 on 04 Sep 2003
Subject: bastard standards
http://peter.hates-software.com/2003/09/04/7af43925.html
To be precise:
--9XMFo0eNrVFj6oBf
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
[...]
--9XMFo0eNrVFj6oBf
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD)
iD8DBQE/V3RlWaB7jFU39ScRApZvAKDIrqZiQ77jDQLSRP95uxU+OnWDzACgwDbW
mOPNYEdOPtDTXnd+LjrOG84=
=01u8
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--9XMFo0eNrVFj6oBf--
WTF?
It's not that it's PGP-singed, mind you, but that it's also encapsulated
inside a bunch of MIME turds ... but not using the MIME-PGP stuff. So if
you're doing MIME you get to share with the old-PGP stuff, and if you're
not you still have to deal with the MIME turds... which are likely to break
the old-PGP-stuff because it's encoded in quoted-unspeakable.
Let's combine the worst of all worlds.